Solid Gold (Season 1 / 1981) The Rovers - "Wasn't That A Party"

Featuring The Solid Gold Dancers: Darcel Wynne, Helene Phillips, Deborah Jenssen, Tony Fields, Alexander Cole, Paula Beyers, Pamela Rossi, & Kahea Bright

[@TheIrishRovers]

Hey there folks - more videos of The Irish Rovers on our youtube channel. Remembering this performance on Solid Gold, they wanted us to lip sync. We sang along anyway.

[@SBTwinMom]

Can confirm...Will mentioned this to my folks.

[@lonesomeloser60]

2023 and heard this song after going down the KZbin rabbit hole. 20 yrs old when thus came out. Knew every word when i heard it agian after all these years.

[@kirstenhaldrup5219]

Yup me too except I was only 17 years old!

[@Sheldon66]

I never knew these Canadian boys were on Solid Gold! I can't stop laughing!! I mean look at those Solid Gold dancers!!

[@Boyo1956]

This song was and is amazingly popular at dances. Almost everyone would get up and dance to this song.

[@JFinSD2]

I just woke up about 30 min ago. After spending 12 hours at an Irish Pub for New Years. This song fits my situation.. lol

[@jennyjackson8635]

Gee I had a lot of parties back in the day.if I had a penny for everytime I danced to this song I'd be rich.people don't know how to have parties like we did in those day..wasn't that a party?

[@johndoyle486]

Kudos to whoever was in charge of the sound mix, it's great to be able to hear the bass so clearly.

[@lynny5510]

That song brings back the best memories of my wild and crazy days!!!

[@Taylor_5724]

One of my ears loved this

[@NapkinEdStern]

I can't get this song out of my mind. I even tweeted it and the Rovers (blue check mark) liked my tweet. Lol. I remember first hearing it 40 years ago when I was a kid.

[@SBTwinMom]

Ah this takes me back! Such fun memories from long ago. Saw these special guys at concerts, kitchen parties, even the World's Fair!

[@KiriChiquita]

Had this song memorised by age four and it was my favourite one to choose on our jukebox. The one I went to first every time.

[@SL19233]

I loved this song as a child and remember listening to it with my nana...when I didn't even know what whiskey was! LOL!

[@lesbonnick5270]

Woke up like this on New Years Day

[@nopcshere6097]

LOVE this recording of them! This song is a regular at our Christmas parties!

[@LadyHeathersLair]

I had no idea that they appeared on Solid Gold. Oh wow.

[@gregoryjamesdilmore6224]

Neither did I!In fact the first time I heard this song was on a K-Tel album called"Kickin Country"&I love the song!

[@davidarmitage4132]

Me either lol

[@WeatherDude556]

Can you imagine the Solid Gold dancers saying "we're going to have to dance to what tonight?" Lol.

[@shelleyrightmyer6421]

Ilove you somuch miss

[@margaretsimpson1280]

Loved them when Jimmy Fergus on was alive

[@thomastarwater2989]

I would have enjoyed the Rovers’ song except that Dionne Warwick interrupted with her little spiel. Love that song anyway. Takes me back 40 years and then some.

[@Holymakinaw]

Toronto's gift to the world.

[@nopcshere6097]

They are actually from Vancouver.

[@keithhanley7796]

Actually, you're both right - sort of. All of them were born in Northern Ireland and emigrated to Canada in the late '50s. In 1963 George Millar and Jimmy Ferguson met at an Irish social club in Toronto and soon decided to form a band, recruiting George's brother, Will, and their cousin, Joe - and later on Wilcil McDowell joined them. They eventually made Vancouver their home and base of operations.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

My dad and I were actually singing this song the other day while washing dishes in my parents kitchen sink

[@shedontanks]

Damn I thought Dionne Warwick was going to join in with them

[@SBTwinMom]

LOL ;-)

[@darrenbell6718]

this IS Canada...enough said!

[@p71collector]

Lip syncing was the norm on this show. Some did it well and some really sucked at it!

[@jamesgale2486]

This guy did great!

[@mworrow]

I guess the sax player was too shy to appear on stage

[@l.a.gothro3999]

The dancers are just NUTTY for this song!